Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The area suffered badly during the time of the plague which gave rise to the legend of the Butterstone . |
| 2 | Whereby the whole church family , broke up into groups for a period of education , and then came together for a time of celebration and worship . |
| 3 | ‘ It seemed so at the time to myself , ’ admitted Edward ruefully . |
| 4 | But I am not so sure that I should have recognised what I recognised unconsciously at the time of writing : that I was in a state of helplessness , the helplessness of being a non-person . |
| 5 | The system was not obnoxious to the perpetuity rule , because each settlement and resettlement was designed to comply with the rule , and the perpetuity period began afresh from the time of each resettlement . |
| 6 | it 's amazing , that there was nine people who worked there at the time of the war . |
| 7 | Down the garden , sloping to the river , the aged and useless apple trees are the successors of those that grew here in the time of Charles I , when the glebe terrier of 1634 speaks of ‘ one orchard , one backside , and two little gardens ’ . |
| 8 | It was a landscape which Coleridge probably knew well by the time of his autumn visit , and to whose spectacular beauty he was to introduce the Wordsworths before the year ended . |
| 9 | Clinical investigations produced evidence that 75% of the women questioned who developed cellulite , did so at a time of hormonal change . |
| 10 | He spoke enthusiastically at the time of co-opting the help of government , community groups and business — a troika that would transform downtrodden parts of the city into gleaming new shopping malls and day-care centres and rebuilt factories and office space . |
| 11 | Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ . |
| 12 | Noguchi tried in vain to construct an earthwork sculpture at a Japanese-American internment camp where he lived voluntarily for a time during World War II . |
| 13 | He said once at the time of Suez with a charge of bitterness , " Those Egyptians are rats . " |
| 14 | Greek became the lingua franca of this region and remained so during the time of the Roman empire . |
| 15 | The ESPLANADE , on which witches were once burned at the stake , is the scene of the famous Military Tattoo held annually at the time of the International Festival . |
| 16 | He crouched still for a time after that , for there was no haste , and now that it was time he found himself afraid ; there might be something to lose there , as well as something to find . |